Marc Benioff took a swing at Microsoft dubbing Copilot βClippy 2.0β and criticizing its lack of corporate intelligence. Being a competitive person, itβs no surprise heβs pushing Salesforce News Agentforce as the superior solution. However, the fact that Microsoft is considering renaming Copilot to βagentβ may indicate Benioffβs jab struck a chord. Although, on a personal note. I always thought it would have been a great idea for Microsoft Azure to bring Clippy back but this time with AI.
UiPath made waves at their Forward 7 conference, pushing Agentic Automation a move that focuses on the enterprise as a whole rather than just process automation. This positions UiPathβs Autopilot as a flexible system that drives agent creation and even can create specialized agents grounded in current and future automation needs. Looking toward an agent driven future.
In other tech news:
β’ TSMC reached a new milestone in its U.S. expansion, achieving higher production yields in its Arizona plant than its Taiwan factories.
β’ IBM went open-source with its Granite models (8B & 2B), adding transparency and collaboration to the AI development space.
⒠Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, now capable of controlling computers through an API, pushing AI beyond text and into action. I thought AGI would be the operating system one day⦠However, we may get to that faster. At least on the operating system part side.
β’ Meta unveiled Meta Spirit LM, a multimodal language model that blends text and speech, driving more natural, integrated AI interactions.